I Was a Teen Drug Dealer — Then I Robbed My Plug & Went To Prison | Nick Marshall

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🗓️ 12 August 2025

⏱️ 123 minutes

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Nick Marshal seemed like a regular kid from New Jersey — good family, middle-class upbringing, and a bright future. But peer pressure and street life led him into drug dealing while still in high school. By 20, Nick was deep in the game: selling, using, and even robbing his suppliers. He tried to walk away, but one final robbery got him caught — and landed him in prison. In this interview, Nick opens up about his rise and fall in the drug world, the day he got arrested, what prison was really like, and how he rebuilt his life in New York’s nightlife scene after serving 3 years behind bars. #DrugGameSurvivor #PrisonToRedemption #TrueCrimeStories #NYCNightlife #ExDealerStory #FromStreetsToSuccess #LockedInPodcast #SecondChanceJourney Connect with Nick Marshall: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thenickmarshall/ Buy his book: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Try-Again/Nick-Marshall/9781632280985 Hosted, Executive Produced & Edited By Ian Bick: https://www.instagram.com/ian_bick/?hl=en https://ianbick.com/ Get 50% off the Magic Mind offer here: https://www.magicmind.com/IANB50. #magicmind #mentalwealth #mentalperformance Presented by Tyson 2.0 & Wooooo Energy: https://tyson20.com/ https://woooooenergy.com/ Use code LOCKEDIN for 20% OFF Wooooo Energy Buy Merch: http://www.ianbick.com/shop Timestamps: 00:00 The Setup: Chaos, Crime, and Fear 00:52 Meet Nick Marshall: Double Life Begins 02:15 Try Again: Writing and Redemption 04:53 Coming Clean: Telling His Story 05:36 Second Chances & Hard Work 06:55 Sponsor Break: Magic Mind 07:50 Early Years: Growing Up in New Jersey 09:02 Anger, Fights, and Bullying 11:39 First Job, First Crime 13:33 Drug Dealing Origins 15:55 Transferring Schools & More Trouble 20:10 The Teen Drug Game Ramps Up 22:43 Family Troubles & Selling Escalates 26:02 High Life, High Risk: Nightclubs & Escalation 30:16 Robbery Plans and Downfall 33:02 A Life Unraveling 36:40 Violent Turns and Final Heist 40:19 The Aftermath: Panic and Guilt 43:15 The Arrest: Facing Justice 50:19 Jail: First Experiences & Reality Sets In 01:05:00 Legal Battle: Attorneys and Pleas 01:16:08 A Shot at Redemption 01:21:22 Prison Time 01:38:09 Prison Lessons and Survival 01:50:19 Life After Prison: Rebuilding 01:56:03 What I Learned: Reflections and Advice 02:00:30 Closing Lessons & Farewell Powered by: Just Media House : https://www.justmediahouse.com/ Creative direction, design, assets, support by FWRD: https://www.fwrd.co Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	adrenaline's rushing. Everything's going across. Get those fuck up. And then all of a sudden,
0:04.2	he busts through with the gun. Get up. As soon as they saw the gun, you could see and feel their
0:08.5	fear. And they just started to get up. And then we just started taking them, tossing them into the
0:12.3	room. The one kid didn't want to get up. And I remember picking him up and looking him in eyes.
0:16.1	And he looked me dead in the eye. He knew it was me. Nick Marshall had a good upbringing in New Jersey, but chasing street
0:21.6	status led him into a double life. By high school, he was selling drugs, doing drugs, and
0:26.5	climbing fast in the game. Then he started robbing his own suppliers. Just when he tried to walk
0:31.9	away, one last job pulled him back in, and it cost him everything. At at 20 years old nick was busted and sentenced to
0:38.9	three years in prison but he didn't stay down today he's found a second shot at success in new
0:43.9	york's nightlife industry this is the story of how fast it can rise and how hard it can fall
0:52.8	nick welcome to locked in man thanks so much for coming up from New York City to be here today.
0:57.1	I appreciate it, man. Thank you for having me genuinely. It's pretty cool. It's a pleasure. And I want to
1:01.4	promote your book at the top of this episode if you want to just tell the audience, the elevator
1:04.8	pitch behind this. All right. So the book is called Try Again, an ex-convict's path from prison
1:10.6	to prosperity. Prosperity.
1:12.0	Prosperity I would love to have put in quotes because I'm still not as prosperous as one would like,
1:17.1	but it's definitely gotten a lot better.
1:19.7	And I wrote a memoir about my struggles and what I went through in getting to prison.
1:26.9	My agent was able to, quote unquote, sell that when I got on the call. They loved it. And they said, but we can't publish it. It's too much crime, violence, drugs. I was like, well, what am I here for? And they said, we want you to write a self-help book. And I whoa whoa whoa whoa I need help I can't help other people
1:45.6	I mean what what is this and they're like no no we believe in your story and what you've done with your
1:50.7	life since and got off that line and my agent said this is simon and schuster an imprint of them
1:57.8	this is it buddy you either do it or we're done. And I was like, all right,
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